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Definitions

• the subject of the present invention is the use of inks and magnetic heads by printing devices used in data processing and in telecommunications via telephone networks, including of the Internet type. This process allows real-time control, simultaneous to printing by immediate rereading of the printing carried out with optical and magnetic ink, with retransmission, to the control unit, of the magnetic reading of the printed document.
• printer-scanner FR 96 05943
• telapreserver FR 96 06892
• - teleworking terminal FR 96 06893 but absolute authentication, in the legal sense, can be challenged or difficult to interpret by non-specialists.
• the present invention in order to improve the above materials, adds an additional component to printing, using optical inks, but which also have one or more additional components: - magnetic
• the present invention uses magnetic inks (their compositions are multiple and known) for printing mechanisms.
• the magnetic ink deposited on the document or the object, (paper or other) is magnetizable by a magnetic writing head and readable magnetically by one or two heads, associated or not, of magnetic reading.
• An original will always have all of the components printed.
• Some printing devices do not allow the use, by nature, of magnetic ink. Only optical rereading or the use of other types of non-magnetic inks (see above) will be possible.
• the magnetic ink is not necessarily permanently magnetized, and can be magnetized only for immediate magnetic reading, with possible demagnetization. Permanent magnetization is useful for superimposing invisible magnetic codes, but presents problems of preservation over time and interference with other magnetic documents. This drawback, although not excluding this possibility in the variants of the present invention, can be circumvented by printing codes and control information, added to the printed documents, with or without encryption.
• the prints defined in the present invention can contain all the information manipulated in IT and telecommunications: alphanumeric characters, images, signatures, sounds, analog signals, ... even if their printed optical transcription is not immediately readable by a human being. . Speech can be authenticated by the corresponding printed or recorded signals, with possible translation into alphanumeric characters by software speech recognition, and treated the same as writing for verification and
• the corresponding printing on a verified and authenticated document can constitute proof in the legal sense of the term, more easily manipulated than other information supports.
• the legal aspect of the processes envisaged by the present invention poses several problems of a legal nature: - protection of confidentiality in certain circumstances, - determination of presumptions, therefore of the sense of proof, in the event of discrepancy between the documents exchanged: originals, copy, double acknowledgment of receipt ...
• a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt it is the sender who is the prime contractor of the communication and who must gather all the evidence in case of dispute .
• the presumption of good faith is therefore on the side of the recipient who may or may not have the document transmitted and who has or has not issued the acknowledgment of receipt. It is up to the sender to ensure that all stages of the communication have gone smoothly, and to intervene by another means if the whole of the communication is not correct or incomplete.
• the above considerations are in the domain of legislators or case law.
• the present invention describes only the necessary technical methods and means. Immediate rereading of the document printed by the recipient with retransmission to the sender, using non-optical rereading, considerably reduces the possibility of falsification.
• the retransmission can be delayed over time if the means in communication do not respond immediately. This is the case with fax machines with storage memories and computers which store the messages exchanged in their magnetic memories, without printing or immediate transmissions.
• the heads of the materials will contain:
• an optical reading mechanism can be associated, which gives a quadruple function assembly.
• the current materials may use a magnetic ink cartridge in place of a normal ink cartridge.
• This case will allow at least a posteriori authentication, but without re-emission of control of the magnetic components of printing.
• Magnetic reading gives an easily cumulative electrical signal for the rapid calculation of a signature.
• Magnetic reading requires a magnetizing head of the magnetic ink to allow reading by a magnetic reader, but this technology is simpler than that of optical reading which requires an optical illumination source.
• Figures 1 to 6 describe the variants and applications of the invention.
• FIG. 1 shows a mechanism which associates, on a document 1 during printing, a print head 2 guided by the axis 6, using a magnetic ink cartridge (dye plus magnetizable particles), and associated with a head 4 of magnetic reading, framed by 2 heads 3 of magnetization of the ink.
• a magnetic ink cartridge diye plus magnetizable particles
• the magnetic heads read the printed tape, as the paper advances, and transmit the result of the magnetic reading to the control mechanism, either in the direction of a communication line, or towards a computer.
• This mixed head can be the basic mechanism of an interactive printer that produces documents printed with visible magnetic ink. This printer can later reread these same documents to convert magnetic reading into signals that can be reprinted and therefore visible in their original version.
• FIG. 2 describes the same mechanism as FIG. 1 but which also combines an optical reading bar placed upstream.
• This association can constitute the basic mechanism of a device intended to optically read a document to view it remotely, to print on this same document with magnetic ink, or to sign it, and to magnetically re-read the printed tapes for return them to the control unit for inspection or storage.
• FIG. 3 shows a printer seen from the side using the mechanism of FIG. 1.
• FIG. 4 shows a telesigning apparatus or a telework terminal seen from the side using the mechanism of FIG. 2.
• FIG. 5 shows a facsimile machine using on the circuit blank documents v, a print head with magnetic ink 2, associated with a magnetization head 3 and a magnetic read head 4, situated downstream on the circuit of printed documents .
• the head 5 is a conventional bar for optical reading of the original documents o to be transmitted.
• the optical rereading by the head 4 makes it possible to send back to the sender of a received fax, a double acting as acknowledgment of receipt. This double is supplemented by an optical signature as defined above.
• FIG. 6 shows a facsimile machine using the same elements as in FIG. 5 but on a single document circuit. In this case, it can also fulfill the same functionalities as the apparatus defined in FIG. 4.
• the methods defined above can be used on all printing equipment: printers, fax machines, teleworking terminals, ... in order to control and re-send the information of a communication and to authenticate the corresponding documents,

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